Monthly Archives July 2015

Benedict XVI Receives Honourary Doctorate in Music

Benedict XVI Receives Honourary Doctorate in Music

July 16, 2015 | Comments Off on Benedict XVI Receives Honourary Doctorate in Music

On July 4, the Pontifical John Paul II University of Krakow and the Krakow Academy of Music awarded the Pope Emeritus two honorary doctorates, after which he gave a lecture on the importance of sacred music: “Ladies and Gentlemen! At this moment, I cannot but express my greatest and most cordial gratitude for the honor you have given me conferring the Doctoratus Honoris Causa. I thank the Grand Chancellor, his dear Eminence Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, and the academic Authorities of both Athenaeums. I rejoice above all over the fact that in this way my bond with Poland, with Krakow, with the homeland...
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Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke – 40 Years of Priesthood – Deo gratias!

Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke – 40 Years of Priesthood – Deo gratias!

July 16, 2015 | Comments Off on Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke – 40 Years of Priesthood – Deo gratias!

The Ecclesia Dei Society of New Zealand congratulates Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke on his 40th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood.    Deo gratias!   Photos of Cardinal Burke’s 40th anniversary ordination Mass can be viewed at CDO photography:   http://cdo.photography/cardinal-burke-40th-anniversary-ordination   Cardinal Burke with Benedict XVI:    
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Homily Given by His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke at the Solemn Pontifical Mass Sunday 7th of July, SS Peter and Paul’s Cork

Homily Given by His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke at the Solemn Pontifical Mass Sunday 7th of July, SS Peter and Paul’s Cork

July 12, 2015 | Comments Off on Homily Given by His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke at the Solemn Pontifical Mass Sunday 7th of July, SS Peter and Paul’s Cork

The New Liturgical Movement has made available the following sermon of Cardinal Burke given at a Pontifical Mass celebrated last Sunday in the local church of Ss Peter and Paul during the Fota Liturgical Conference: “We can well identify ourselves with the crowd who had gone into the desert to be instructed by Christ. Clearly, a great number of people were hungering for the word of truth which the Lord alone could impart to them, and, for that reason, they had left the ordinary surroundings of their daily life to be in an extraordinary place with Him. In the words...
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From the beginning it was not so (Mt 19:9)

From the beginning it was not so (Mt 19:9)

July 6, 2015 | Comments Off on From the beginning it was not so (Mt 19:9)

On his recent visit to Australia, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan, spoke at the Conference of Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy on the unchangeable truth about marriage and sexuality.  Part of his talk is reproduced here: From the beginning it was not so (Mt 19:9) The unchangeable truth about marriage and sexuality by Bishop Athanasius Schneider The Lord’s attitude to marriage and divorce Our Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Word and the eternal Truth in person, restored the original dignity of the human nature in a most wonderful manner — “Qui dignitatem humanae substantiae...
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